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Tag: Peter Sagan

  • Marcel Kittel wins stage but loses hair gel

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    Not everything’s going Marcel Kittel’s way. Big disaster at the airport in London: my hair gel did not make it through the security check… 😛 — Marcel Kittel (@marcelkittel) July 7, 2014 But other than that, he’s having a fine old time. Kittel notched his second win out of the three British stages in London,…

  • Vincenzo Nibali enjoys the terrain

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    The various jerseys of the Tour de France serve a valuable and underappreciated purpose. No-one can identify with a genre of cyclists, but give us an individual and we can empathise. Take Marcel Kittel, for example. At the end of stage one, he proved himself to be the fastest cyclist in the biggest bike race…

  • Try and learn Michal Kwiatkowski’s name

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    It’s not an easy one, but he’s a rider of growing importance so you might as well make the effort. I know, no-one likes effort, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. At least it’s only hearing sounds in your mind’s ear and not actual physical effort, like having to go to the cash machine or something like…

  • Why Peter Sagan isn’t a sprinter

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    Peter Sagan won the green jersey in last year’s Tour de France and he always contests the sprints, yet people don’t tend to talk about him as being a sprinter. Why is this? Stage four of the Tour of Oman answered that question. What happened? During four ascents of the same hill, the peloton was…

  • Cobbled classics riders to watch

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    Happy New Year and welcome to The Year of the Cobble. I was going to pay a bit more attention to the cobbled classics anyway, but it’s also worth following them to get a feel for this kind of racing ahead of the cobbled stage of the Tour de France – a day that could…

  • Peter Sagan is a very, very vivid shade of grey

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    If you’re a fairly casual cycling follower, you might struggle to understand what all the fuss is about with Peter Sagan. The key is that cycling is not a black and white sport. Sagan isn’t the best sprinter and nor is he the best stage racer. He lies somewhere between those two extremes, shining like…

  • Simon Gerrans denies Peter Sagan

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    If you thought the stage two finish was close, it wasn’t. The gap was a full second. The gap between Simon Gerrans and Peter Sagan on stage three was way less than that – more like 10cm. Only in snail racing is 10cm a big gap and at the time of writing there was no…

  • Fabian Cancellara has a little extra wattage at Ronde van Vlaanderen

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    As expected, the closing stages of Ronde van Vlaanderen did indeed give us the latest chapter in the rivalry between Fabian Cancellara and Peter Sagan. It was an unambiguous chapter written in very plain English. What happened? The penultimate climb of Ronde van Vlaanderen is the Oude Kwaremont, which is a cobbled climb 2.2km long…

  • Cancellara-Sagan rivalry rolls onto the cobbles

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    If you hear someone saying that this site doesn’t have narrative themes, feel free to box their ears or perhaps deliver a more contemporary reprimand, such as a happy slap. Does happy slapping still exist? You don’t hear so much about it any more. Maybe the recession is dulling our buoyancy and the pastime has…

  • Sagan-Cancellara tiff helps decide Milan-San Remo

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    I think it’s fair to say that. Here’s why. The history Fabian Cancellara is still pissed off with Peter Sagan after the goofy Slovak sat passively on his wheel before sprinting to victory in stage one of last year’s Tour. I don’t mean Sagan literally sat on Cancellara’s wheel, you understand, because you don’t win…